Improvement in attaching and detaching tops of vehicles



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D. A. KING AND V. N. GARDNER, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY..

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING AND DETACHING TOPS OF VEHICLES.V

spetication fot-ming part of Letters Patent No. 47,959, dated May 3o, isc-5.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, D. A. KINGr and V. N. GARDNER, both of the city of Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Attaching and Detaching rlops to Vehicles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of our invention consists in providing a simple plan of attaching and detaching the seat to which the top of the vehicle is attached, so the same can .be readily and quickly removed and set aside,without any derangement or injury to the same, until again needed,- when it may be replaced with ease and dispatch.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

We construct the top to vehicles in the usual manner, excepting the top, to a frame-work of metal, as represented in Figure l of annexed drawings. Said metal frame is attached to a bottom piece marked d in Fig. 1 in annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, to which reference is here made, in which Fig. l is a section of the body of the vehicle;

l Fig. 2, `a sectional view of the vehicle, with the top detached; Fig. 3, a sectional'view parallel with the seat, with the top detached.

c a represent the frame of the vehicle.

B B represent the fixed part of the seat.

c represents the cushion of the seat.

d represents the movable part of the seat, to which the metal frame of the top is attached.

e represents a false bottom below the movable bottom d, and which is intended to take the place of cl when it is removed.

f represents bearing-pieces of metal, having their pivots entirely on one side 4of the same, as shown, so that when the movable bottom d is removed,(to which the top is attached,) and e being raised, so as to turn the bearing-pieces f over, and thereby bring the top edges off level with the botton of the seat B, when the false bottom e, being of the same thickness as B, will, in resting on the bearing-pieces f, be level with the seat B, and will receive the cushion c. Y

g g represent flanges on the top of f, as shown in the several gures, for preventing the bearers f from turning over while sustaining the false bottom e up level with the fixed bottom B.

h h represent that part of the metal frame to which the top is attached, but which has been omitted here for the'sake of convenience.

J is the cushioned part of the metal frame, called the back piece.7

K K represent buttons attached to the fixed portion ofthe seat B, for holding the movable portion d, to which the top is attached.

The operation is as follows: Then constructed as above described-as, for example, as shown in Fig. loof annexed drawings-having the metal frame to which the top is to be attached in position, and ifit be desired to remove the top, it is only necessary to operate the buttons K K, so as to be able to lift off the top,which, beingl attached to the piece d, keeps the top in the same position as when upon the vehicle; or it may be folded in the usual manner and set away in some convenient place until again needed. When d is removed, as above described, the false bottom e is raised, so as topermit the turning of f f, with the flanges g g, up level with the bottom of thexed seat, which sustains the false bottom level with the top of the iixed seat, which is then ready to receive the cushion c. The flanges' g g on the bearers f prevent the bearing-pieces f from turning. Thus the top is easily and rapidly removed, leaving lthe seat as shown at Figs. 2 and 3; or the top can in like manner be replaced, as shown in Fig. l.

The ordinary mode of attaching the top to vehicles is by means of a number of' screws, inconvenient to get at or work without a wrench, and when removed leaves the pieces to which the top is attached in such a loose condition that the same is .very soon seriously injured by the necessary handling of the same.

That we claim, and desire to secure by Let-- ters` Patent, is-

The mode herein described of attaching the top of vehicles to the movable piece 0l, resting on the false bottom e, and sustained by the bearers f, and with the movable piece d, held in position by the buttons K K, or their equivalents, all constructed and operated as above described, and for the purposes set forth.

D. A. KING.

V. N. GARDNER.

Vitnesses:

JOHN MOMURTRY, L. GIBBoNs. 

